We will declare Niger Delta Independence on October 1, 2016 – Avengers

Rampaging militant group, Niger Delta Avengers, has vowed to declare the oil rich region an independent state on October 1, 2016.

This follows the claim by a dialogue group, Ballantyne Agiri, that the NDA had agreed to dialogue with the Federal Government in a move to end the crises in the region.

However, spokesman of the group which has claimed responsibility for several attacks in the Niger Delta, Mudoch Agbinibo, denied the report.

In a statement released on its website on Thursday, NDA said Agiri was not authorised to speak on its behalf.

Avengers also stated that the October 1 declaration for the independence of the region remains “sacrosanct,” stressing that the region no longer want to be part of Nigeria.

The statement reads, “Our prayer for Buhari and the Northern hypocrite (Northern Governors) is that oil should be found in commercial quantity in the North, so they can let the Niger Delta go.

“The Buhari-led government has fail Nigerians with their misdirected policies that has divide the country, as such nobody wants to be part of that failed state not even the Niger Delta.

“The October 1st 2016, declaration of independence is still sacrosanct. If the Nigeria government fails to retrace it’s step by restructuring this country, we want to warn the general public that the day of reckoning is close for those using NDA to defraud people.”

Recall that the group had in May, 2016 threatened to display its flag, currency, passport, ruling council and territory to the world by October 2016.